All Grown Up by Larissa de Silva

Author:Larissa de Silva [de Silva, Larissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-19T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

2019

I spent the rest of my shift furious.

There might have been other reasons for him to do what he did, but I couldn’t think of any. He might have paid lip service to the fact that he wasn’t ashamed of me, but actions always spoke louder than words, and his actions were those of someone who was still ashamed of me.

I couldn’t believe I had let myself be put in that position. In the position where he could act as if he didn’t know me, as if it was cool that I wasn’t part of his life.

And I wasn’t. I didn’t want to be that person in anyone’s life.

He might have had unsavory friends, but that didn’t mean anything. What happened was simple and straightforward. He had pulled exactly the same move that he had when we were in school and it was clear to me that I couldn’t expect any better from him.

Cam had been wrong. She had been way off base when he had said that he had grown up, and so had he. I had been so close to believing him, but I was now glad that I had treaded lightly, that I hadn’t just fallen for it, hook, line and sinker.

Jody was charming. If I had been a little younger, a little more naïve, I might have believed his routine. But I was old enough to know better.

I went home, still angry. The night had been surprisingly calm, which was good. I never wanted to be distracted when I was treating patients, though I was pretty good at compartmentalizing. At least it felt like I had been until Jody walked back into my life.

I told myself I was being ridiculous. I shouldn’t have cared this much about this. He was just a part of my past, and I didn’t want to have to deal with that.

I was only going to focus on my future. I wasn’t going to focus on him. Clearly, that was going to get me absolutely nowhere.

I was thinking about that when the phone rang. I had left it on my desk, near the kitchen, as I was getting ready for bed. I had just put my stuff down and kicked off my shoes. Naturally, I went to get my phone, thinking that some sort of emergency had happened.

No one called me at six in the morning, especially not when I was on night shift, unless it was a really big emergency.

I put the phone to my ear. “Hello?”

“Hello. I didn’t think you would answer,” Jody’s voice said. He sounded very surprised. “If I had thought that you would, I would have something prepared.”

“Don’t call me again—”

“Wait,” he said. “Before you hang up. Will you just give me a chance to explain?”

“You have two minutes. Which is more time than you deserve.”

“I know. I know that.”

“Great. One minute and forty-five seconds…”

“Wait, wait. Okay, so that a guy, you know, the one who came up to us?”

“Yeah.”

“That guy is bad news. I didn’t want to introduce you, because I didn’t want to put you in danger.

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